Wirra Wirra Church Block Grenache Shiraz 2024
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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What a thoroughly beautiful wine this is from one of McLaren Vale’s finest wineries. It’s about 60% Grenache and the remainder Shiraz, coaxed with individual parcels, plunging and pump over. Only the Grenache saw oak—French puncheons for about eight months—while the Shiraz rested in stainless steel, contributing a bright freshness to the blend. The wine is brightly fruited with a crimson red hue. The nose is spicy with red fruits, a little mulberry and cherry, and a lift of perfume. The palate is seamlessly medium-bodied, balanced, and with great poise. Everything about this wine appeals, making it a joy to drink.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
